1.6. 2009

Creativity Crisis, Crisis Creativityalfrehn for Nurope

Joseph Mallord William Turner:

“The Morning after the Deluge”

(ca. 1843)

Did creativity cause the crisis?

Innovative financial productsA culture of creative consumption

The desire for noveltyThe feeling that everything was possible

Presenting the new solutions (same as the old solutions)

After the Crisis

“Creativity will save the economy!”

“Culture will save the economy!”

“We need innovation!”

“We need new ways of thinking!”

Against Romanticized Views

In many ways, the creative economy is complicit in the financial crisis. Consider...

N E W S F L A S H !

The booming art econmy

Designing the excess

Credit-financed boutique everything

A Time For Responsibility

So what now?

Re-Evaluating Creativity

Against neophilia

Designing For the Age of No Products

A Cultural Economy of Less?

Sustainability and the Creative Economy?

Or, Do We Need Another Opera House?

The Need For Leadership

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